VirgilVirgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and beauty with profound meditation on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the State. From short pastoral poems on love and song he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome. "The Aeneid", immediately recognised as the greatest masterpiece of Latin literature, has had incalculable influence on European literature in the two thousand years since it was first published. |
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... civil wars , the Aeneid in a time in which one man , who had raised a private army and marched on Rome in his nineteenth year , and whose whole career had been essentially unconstitutional , was establish- ing himself as the permanent ...
... civil wars , the Aeneid in a time in which one man , who had raised a private army and marched on Rome in his nineteenth year , and whose whole career had been essentially unconstitutional , was establish- ing himself as the permanent ...
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... civil wars was giving place to the enlightened supremacy of one man , divinely chosen , who would restore peace and order to Rome and the world . That , at least , was the optimistic view , the one already expressed by Virgil in the ...
... civil wars was giving place to the enlightened supremacy of one man , divinely chosen , who would restore peace and order to Rome and the world . That , at least , was the optimistic view , the one already expressed by Virgil in the ...
Page 111
... civil wars 1f . , 11f . , 27 , 49 , Fracastoro 105 57ff . , 86 , 91 Gallus , Cornelius 19 , 23 , Claude Lorrain 20 29 , 31f . Cleopatra 12 , 27 , 29 , 60 Georgics conquest 45 , 60 , 87 , 98f . Corydon 24f . , 33 , 51 country life 45ff ...
... civil wars 1f . , 11f . , 27 , 49 , Fracastoro 105 57ff . , 86 , 91 Gallus , Cornelius 19 , 23 , Claude Lorrain 20 29 , 31f . Cleopatra 12 , 27 , 29 , 60 Georgics conquest 45 , 60 , 87 , 98f . Corydon 24f . , 33 , 51 country life 45ff ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
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